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NYT copy desk to top editors: ‘You have turned your backs on us’ – Poynter

• fludlight 9y ago
  > routine copy-editing duties such as fact checking, reviewing sources, correcting misleading or inaccurate information, clarifying language and, yes, fixing spelling and grammar mistakes There should exist a quantitative/scientific editor as well. Almost every non-trade news source is littered with stories where the reporter has clearly failed to understand the methodology and conclusions of a study or doesn't have a basic grasp of statistics.